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The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography

Christopher "Roo" Page

A podcast about Astrophotography and Astronomy. Deep dive discussions into all things Astro. Gear, Best Practices, Interviews, and everything in between.Follow along with host Christopher "Roo" Page as he takes you through his experience as a beginner in the hobby through becoming a semi-expert in SOME areas. A large community driven podcast that has a very personal touch to it. We try to make sure you"ll learn something new every week. Dark sky trips, Club meetups, listener questions, gear reviews

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Episode 90 - Let's Talk Astro

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2026/03/17

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics WELCOME BAAAACK to The Astrocast! This week, Roo sits down and catches you up on the last couple weeks, the good, the bad, and the UGLY (Reflect Orbital)! A BIG shoutout to our newest Patreon Family Members, Eddie and Tony! If you'd like to join the Astrocast family, visit our Patreon and you'll get a link to our private, members only Discord! It's THE best club there is! We talk remote rigs, filter wheels, the bea...

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Episode 89 - Dark Dragons Astronomy & The Future of...

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2026/03/04

Dark Dragons Astronomy✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Episode OverviewRoo sits down with Rick and Jeff, founders of Dark Dragons Astronomy, to discuss new hardware and software developments, large-aperture lunar observing, and a major announcement involving the historic Clear Dark Sky website. Also - The Astrocast is proud to Dedicate this episode to the late, great Attilla Danko. A very, very special and heartfelt thank you to his wife In...

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Episode 88 - Preparing for Dark Skies

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2026/02/18

Join our Patreon today and get exclusive access to Bortle 1 Skies ✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Welcome BAAACK to The Astrocast! This week, Roo catches you up on his preparations for running his first remote rig at Astropeak Observatory in Utah, and all of the successes and struggles he's had along the way so far. Also - we take the last part of the show to highlight 3 very special women for black history month. If you want to know more a...

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Episode 87 - MLAstro's founder, Minh Nguyen

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2026/02/10

Join our Patreon today and get exclusive access to Bortle 1 Skies ✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Welcome BAAACK to The Astrocast! This week, Roo sits down with the founder of MLAstro, Minh Nguyen! Minh started his company in Vietnam and has done a phenomenal job so far, and is looking to challenge the big guys in this field with his awesome equipment. You can check out Minh's work at MLAstro. This is a VERY in depth conversation that may n...

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Episode 86 - Nate from Astropeak Observatories

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2026/02/05

Join our Patreon today and get exclusive access to Bortle 1 Skies ✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Welcome BAAACK to The Astrocast! This week, Roo sits down with Nathan from Astropeak Observatories, to talk about what it's like to actually take the dive in to opening a remote observatory! We get in to the challenges, the rewards, and how to pick the best spot, and a WHOLE lot more! Special thanks to Mark Linley for the poem shared near the end of ...

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Episode 85 - ZWO Announces the AM7

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2026/01/27

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics JOIN US on the Patreon to get exclusive access to Astropeak Observatories! Only 9 spots remain as of 1/27/26! Bortle 1 skies from 7000 ft, you heard that right! Welcome baaaaack to The Astrocast! This week, Roo takes you through the crazy winter weather we've experienced in Charlotte over the last weekend, the less than stellar Aurora Show in N. America (glad some of you European listeners got to see ...

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Episode 84 - Remote Rigs and How to Run Em

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2026/01/15

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY ASTROCAST! Welcome BAAAACK to The Astrocast! This week on the show, Roo takes you through SWITCHING TO NINA! He's finally decided to pull the trigger and move away from the ASIAIR for his main widefield imaging rig, and there are a LOT of choices that need to be considered to make that happen! We also discuss some of the hardware choices that go in to it, including choosing a PC. Check out...

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Episode 83 - Data Management (Youtube Video!)

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2026/01/01

Check out the video here! - you'll wanna watch this weeks episode if ya can! This week on The Astrocast, Roo, Justin, and Parish get together to discuss Astrophotography data management, Pixinsight, Network Attached Storage, NINA, and a whole lot more, on this weeks episode of The Astrocast. If you would like to support the show, consider joining our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/TheAstrocast On today's episode, you'll learn all about: Justin's method for dealing with MASSIVE amoun...

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HEADS UP! YouTube Premiere tomorrow night! CHECK NOTES!

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/12/30

Hey everyone, it's Roo! Hope the end of 2025 is treating you well! We will be doing a SPECIAL live premier for Episode 83 of The Astrocast over on Youtube, and I hope to see you all there! I'll be live in the chat with you, so if you want to stop by and say hi, it should be happening between 7 and 9pm EST on 12/31. The Astrocast Live Premiere on Youtube Look forward to seeing you soon, clear skies! -Roo Support the show Email me at "Roo@TheAstrocast.com" with any questions/comme...

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Episode 82 - Io Saturnalia!

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2025/12/24

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics That's io, as in, EEE OH! "io, Saturnalia!" - shout it from the rooftops! WELCOME BAAACK to The Astrocast! Roo is back from having a nasty cold last week, and thrilled to be with you! This week on the show, we talk about some ancient Roman traditions that celebrate the winter solstice and the holidays! We also discuss the "flavor of the week", Veralux Hypermetric Stretch (That's a moutful!) a...

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I'm Sick! :(

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/12/18

Hey everyone! Hope you're doing great. Just checking in to let ya know i'm under the weather this week, been pushing myself a little too hard lately and it seems my body has finally caught up with my mind. I'll be taking the week off to get some rest and hopefully recover quickly, and will be back with you guys in no time. Enjoy those stars for me while i'm away, and clear skies to you all! -Roo Support the show Email me at "Roo@TheAstrocast.com" with any questions/comments. Thanks for...

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Episode 80 - Building an Astrophotography Processing...

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2025/12/09

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics WELCOME BAAACK to The Astrocast! Roo is back from Thanksgiving break, and ready to talk about Astrophotography processing PC's! This week on the show, we go deep on what matters and what may not matter quite as much when building an ideal comptuer for AP processing. It goes without saying - these are just my OPINIONS! You may completely disagree with me on much of this, and that's okay! Building a PC is great...

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The Backyard Naturalists - Interview w/Roo

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/12/01

Hey everyone! We're still off this week for the holiday break, but worry not - i'm back in the driver seat and working on an awesome episode for next week! While you wait, I thought you might enjoy listening to an interview I did on another podcast about Light Pollution! If you like the show, feel free to check out Lori and Debbie here: The Backyard Naturalists We'll be back next week with an all new episode...it's been cloudy and rainy in Charlotte! Hope you're having cleare...

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Episode 78 - The Astrocast, After Dark

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/11/20

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Welcome baaaack to Late Night, with The Astrocast! This week, Roo quietly takes you on a journey through...well, you'll just have to listen for yourself and find out. The Astrocast will be off for Thanksgiving in the USA, but we'll be back the week of 11/30 with an ALL NEW episode! Don't go anywhere! Visit The Astrocast on Facebook! If you haven't yet, please consider donating to the show's Patreo...

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Episode 77 - For Drizzle My Shizzle

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/11/14

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics HEADS UP! There's an awesome sale happening on the ASKAR FRA300! It's got a HUGE discount on it, but it won't last long! Get yours here, and help the show a bit! Welcome baaaack to The Astrocast! This week, Roo takes you on an adventure through the history of DRIZZLING! The why, how, and where! THE WHO! ALL THE W'S!!! We also crown a week 2 winner of #socialmediastardust and talk about light pollution, you kn...

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Episode 76 - Social Media Stardust

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/11/05

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Welcome baaaack to The Astrocast! This week, Roo takes you through a bunch of awesome new plugins he recently discovered (check out the links below!) and announces a new weekly segment for the show!!! Congrats to Christy Toms from Australia for being the first winner of Social Media Stardust! Great photo, Christy! We also discuss the return of the Great Nebula in Orion, and SVBONY coming in to its own as a ha...

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Episode 75 - Legendary Mic Edition

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/10/29

✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Welcome baaaack to The Astrocast! We celebrate a large milestone this week with our third, and FINAL (hopefully) microphone! Please welcome, all the way from broadcast Nirvana, the Shure SM7B! If the Astrocast was Goku, we'd have some GIANT hair by now! If I sound particularly silky smooth this week - get used to it! I finally took the plunge and upgraded the trusty Rode PodMic to the legendary Shure SM7...

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Episode 74 - "A dystopian nightmare!"

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/10/22

**WARNING! Roo gets a bit ANGRY during this one!** Shop trusted astronomy retailers using our affiliate links: ✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Every purchase helps keep The Astrocast ad-free and delivering the top-notch content you deserve! A special thanks to our friends-of-the-show and long-time sponsors, Dark Dragons Astronomy! Check out DDA for all your observatory needs! WELCOME BAAAACK to The Astrocast! This week, Roo takes you thro...

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Episode 73 - The 7...2600 Club

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/10/14

Shop trusted astronomy retailers using our affiliate links: ✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics Every purchase helps keep The Astrocast ad-free and delivering the top-notch content you deserve! Join the Patreon community for access to our members only Discord family, the Astrocast Society! We've COMPLETELY rebuilt our Discord from the ground up, and it really is a sight to behold! Special thank you to Tim for all his hard work in recent w...

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Episode 72 - Swan Song

The Astrocast: Astronomy & Astrophotography ·

2025/10/03

AC HOODIES AVAILABLE NOW!!! To celebrate the coming of Orion in the Northern Hemisphere, along with colder weather, the Astrocast is releasing it's first HOODIE! I've got one, and I promise you, it's GREAT! Very comfy, very stylish, AND it fights Light Pollution wherever you go! Grab one today and support the show while starting that all so important conversation everywhere you go! We also now have Bumper Stickers! Would you like to make a one time donation to show your support for the show, ...

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